Unknown gunmen attacked Ahmadiyya Mosque in Village Mong near Mandi Bahauddin in early hours of Friday when large number of worshippers gathered to offer Fajar prayers. According to sources armed with automatic assault rifles (Kalashinkoves) three persons entered the village riding a motorcycle. Two of them entered Ahmadiyya Mosque and sprayed bullets in every direction killing six instantly and wounding 22 others including 12 children. Two injured succumbed to their injuries in Hospital. Condition of some of the injured is stated to be critical. According to Indus News Network the village Mong never had any religious tension or violence and people of all sects lived there peacefully.

Those who were martyred included two real brothers Raja Muhammad Ashraf, Raja Abid and their other family members Raja Muhammad Altaf, Raja Abdul Majeed, Raja Lahrasab and three others Aslam, Naveed and Yasir.

Police in Pakistan say at least eight people were killed and 19 injured when gunmen opened fire as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers.

The attack on members of the minority Ahmadiyya sect took place near the town of Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab.

The Ahmadiyya profess allegiance to Islam, but were declared heretical by a constitutional amendment 30 years ago.

Police official Mohammed Arif said the gunmen rode up on motorbikes before entering the mosque and opening fire.

‘Religious terrorism’

“So far we only know that three men riding on a motorcycle suddenly came in the village Friday morning. Two of them went inside the mosque and started firing,” he told the Associated Press.

When I reached the mosque, I heard cries and saw blood everywhere

Masood Ahmed Raja, eyewitnessAbout 150 Ahmadiyya live in Mong, a suburb of Mandi Bahauddin, 150km (94 miles) south of Islamabad.

The head of the mosque, Sadiq Hussain Sherazi, was leading prayers when he heard gunfire and “immediately threw myself on the floor”.

“The attackers thought I was dead and that is what saved me. After a while I got up and saw bodies all around me. There was blood and chaos all around and the wall was full of bullet holes.”

Masood Ahmed Raja, a doctor belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect, said he was going to a mosque when he saw three masked men escaping on a motorcycle.

“I had no idea who these men were, but when I reached the mosque, I heard cries and saw blood everywhere,” he said.

“I don’t know who attacked our mosque, but it seems to be an act of religious terrorism.”

Persecution

Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said: “We condemn this attack. Any act of violence in which innocent people are killed should be condemned.”

Shahbaz Bhatti, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, also condemned the killings, but said the government had failed to protect minorities.

Human rights groups have constantly highlighted the persecution suffered by the Ahmadiyya in Pakistan.

In August, authorities closed down the offices of 16 publications run by followers of the sect in Punjab city for “propagation of offensive material.”

Bangladesh has also banned publications by the Ahmadiyya movement amid demands from Islamic hardliners that it be declared non-Muslim.

The Ahmadiyya were declared non-Muslims under the Pakistani constitution in 1974.

The sect was founded by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam [Ahmad], who was born in the town of Qadian in Punjab in 1835.

The Ahmadiyya believe he was the Imam Mahdi, or the Promised Messiah.

Sectarian violence in Pakistan mostly concerns the rift between the majority Sunnis and minority Shia and has claimed around 4,000 lives in the past decade.

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Gunmen slay Pakistani worshippers

Friday 07 October 2005, 9:53 Makka Time, 6:53 GMT

Three gunmen on motorcycles have attacked worshippers belonging to a small religious sect in eastern Pakistan, killing at least eight people and wounding 20 others, police say.

The Friday attack on a building used by the Ahmadiyya sect happened in the village of Mong, about 400km northeast of Multan, a main city in the eastern Punjab province, said Mohammed Arif, an area police officer.

The attack came after a dawn prayer on the second day of Ramadan.

“So far we only know that three men riding on a motorcycle suddenly came in the village on Friday morning. Two of them went inside the mosque and started firing,” he said.

“It was a scene of carnage. The floor of the one-room mosque was littered with blood,” said Mohammad Sajid, who lives nearby. He said 25 people were praying when the attack happened at around 4.45am (2345 GMT).

“We condemn this attack,” Information Minister Sheikh Rashid said.

Religious divisions

The Ahmadiyya sect was founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a 19th-century Indian religious leader who claimed to be a prophet seeking Islam’s renewal. The religious group differs from Muslims over the definition of Islam’s founder Mohammad being the final prophet.

Eight dead in Pakistan mosque attack ISLAMABAD, Oct 7 (AFP) - Masked gunmen with Kalashnikov rifles stormed into a mosque belonging to a minority Muslim sect in Pakistan Friday, shooting dead eight people and wounding 14, interior minister Aftab Sherpao and police said. Members of the Ahmadi community offering morning prayers in Mong, a suburb of Mandi Bahauddin town, 100 kilometres south of Islamabad, were attacked by three men on a motorbike and two on foot, reports said. “The floor of the one-room mosque was littered with blood,” said Mohammad Sajid, who lives nearby. He said around 25 people were praying when the attack was made at around 4:45 am (2345 GMT).“Two masked men entered the mosque and sprayed bullets at people standing in two rows for morning prayers,” area police chief Ziaullah Niazi told AFP. “One witness said he could hear the sound of a motorbike with its engine running outside throughout the attack.” Police said one of the injured was in a critical condition.(Updated @ 12:30 PST First posted 10:15 PST)

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Our insensitive jerk from Pakistan is still paralysed over dealing with religious extremism in the country. When the fuck is he going to pull his head out of the sand? Eight died and over 20 injured when gunmen opened fire as worshippers from the Ahmadiyya sect in Punjab state. Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said: “We condemn this attack. Any act of violence in which innocent people are killed should be condemned.” Shahbaz Bhatti, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, also condemned the killings, but said the government had failed to protect minorities. In Pak, this doesn’t happen just to Ahmadiyyas , but also frequently to the Shias . Pakistan also had its first gay marriage , but its unlikely to open a flood of others. On hearing of the wedding, a tribal council told the pair to leave the area or be killed for breaking religious and tribal “values and ethics”. I’m more worried about the fact that the old man was buying the young kid. Hmmmm…

http://komiek.blog.com/352489/October 07, 2005my blood is just as red as yours...Eight dead, twenty injured in religious sect attack in Pakistan

3 masked men opened fire in a mosque near the town of Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab, Pakistan killing eight and injuring 20 more. The dead and injured belonged to a Muslim sect called Ahmadiyyat. In 1974, the Pakistani government declared them heretical.

The group arrived on motorcycles, entered the mosque and fired away during Friday morning prayers (Friday is the Muslim holy day). The Ahmadiyya have been targeted by Muslim sects throughout the world because of their beliefs.

From Punjab to Bangladesh the Ahmadi's are being accused of "propagation of offensive material". Human rights groups have repeatedly tried to shed light to the problem, but the Pakistan government refuses to protect the minority community.

A very sad incident happened in a village of my Pakistan … a real painful incident …! After Sahri time, when people gathered in a mosque to offer Fajr prayers … few people came and opened up fire, that caused eight shahadats and 20 people were injured.

The people who gave their lives belonged to Ahmadiyya Muslim community … they were offering second rak’at of Fajr prayers … when Allah blessed them with shahadat. This happened in a small village in Mandi Bahuddin (near Sargodha) in Pakistan.

I don’t have any words to express the pain … the first thing that came to my mind was the مخالفین who did this act … were they fasting? If yes, what was the neeyat they did after sahri?

It's a repetition, in 2000 and 2001 same incidents happened, martyring many in Ahmadiyya Mosques during and after the prayers were being offered.

http://clarityandresolve.com/archives/2005/10/you_are_not_the.phpOctober 07, 2005You Are Not the Right Kind of Muslims, You Must Die

Once again we see how tolerant the death cult is to any deviation from its violent jihad norms: 8 Killed, 19 Wounded at Pakistan Mosque

MONG, Pakistan - Armed assailants opened fire inside a mosque belonging to a small Muslim sect in eastern Pakistan early Friday, killing eight people and wounding 19 others, police and a doctor said.

The attack on the mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect, a frequent target of persecution, happened in the village of Mong, 150 miles southeast of the capital, Islamabad.

"So far we only know that three men riding on a motorcycle suddenly came in the village Friday morning. Two of them went inside the mosque and started firing," said Mohammed Arif, a police official. ...

Masood Ahmed Raja, a cardiologist who belongs to the sect, said he was going to the Baitul Hamad mosque when he saw three masked men fleeing on a motorcycle.

"I had no idea who these men were, but when I reached the mosque, I heard cries and saw blood everywhere," he said. "I don't know who attacked our mosque, but it seems to be an act of religious terrorism."

Yup. It was an act of pious Islamic holy war against the infidels/apostates, as prescribed in the Quran and sunna—an act that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community have forsaken since their inception, more than one hundred years ago. They actually have transformed Islam into a religion of peace, and as this horrific incident makes clear, they are a despised and persecuted minority.

Sadiq Ahmed Sherazi, who was leading prayer at the time, said one bullet missed his head and hit the wall.

"All of a sudden, (the attackers) opened fire and the shooting went on for five minutes and nobody could get out," he said, adding "then it went quiet and all we could hear was the sound of people crying."

Mumtaz Ali Khan, a 55-year-old injured man at a government hospital, said he was praying inside the mosque when he heard firing and saw people falling down.

"Then I fell down and found myself in the hospital when I opened my eyes," he said.

Nightmarish scenes like this illustrate why it is so very critical for infidels to throw their support behind civil, progressive Muslim groups like the Ahmadiyya. Without our help, they are doomed to such intolerance and violence from the mainstream Islamic community.

At least eight people were killed and 20 injured when gunmen opened fire in a mosque as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers. The attack on members of the minority Ahmadiyya sect - often persecuted according to human rights groups - took place near the town of Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab.